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Israel Presses Hamas on Israeli Captives
(Jerusalem Post) Adam Rasgon - Israel will not allow Hamas to search for five militants missing in the explosion of a Palestinian cross-border tunnel from Gaza without progress on the issue of Israelis held in Hamas captivity, Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, said Thursday. The Hamas-run Civil Defense in Gaza had asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to request permission from Israel to search for the missing militants in the border region. Hamas is believed to be holding the bodies of two Israeli soldiers as well as three captured Israeli civilians.